Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Testa. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. In triumph and disaster, Junior Kroll has a comical way of altering the course of events. He plays in a kazoo quartet, frees the dinner party lobsters, steals one neighbor's roses as a present for another, and decorates Grandfather's birthday cake with "little chocolate flies." Michael Paraskevas's zany illustrations bring these offbeat, bittersweet poems to life.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Ed Young.

Hardcover. Racine, WI, Whitman, 1st illustrated thus, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, color illustrations by Roy Best. Tan cloth spine with color illustrated boards. Cover states title as "The Picture Story Book of Peter Pan". Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Bright, collectible copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hynerion, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY WELLS LAID IN. Clean copy.

Garden City, NY, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, and light soil. Illustrated endpapers. First book written by the notable illustrator, who went on to create the Rosy Cole children's series. A delightful tale of romance and culture in the city.

Softcover. Burlington VT, Vermont Migrant Education Program, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The scarce 1st printing of this charming book for beginning readers. Paperback. B&W illustrations by Jane Clark Brown.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. Six further adventures of Pippa Mouse and her animal friends. Charming b&w drawings by Cyndy Szekeres. 55 pages, clean copy.

New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY HAGUE on half title-page. Color illustrations by Michael Hague.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, B&W lithographic illustrations by Creekmore. In a bright dust jacket with $4.50 flap price.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, 2nd Ed., Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in original cream glazed pictorial boards with olive green spine and corners. Color illustrations throughout by Kate Greenaway. Page edges green, endpapers tanning. No date but circa 1912. Glossy paper over boards has soil amd bubbling, rubbing, hinges cracked. Inside pages very good, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Tambourine, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Valery Vasiliev. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A young girl learns the secret of a strange whittler whose carvings magically come to life. Clean copy.

New York, Orchard Books, 1st US, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color illustrations by Anno. Dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Bottom of spine bumped. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Chaos descends on Shadowland when the watchman leaves his post to join a little match girl on a snowy street in the real world.

NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 95 pages of fables, illustrated with appropriate prints from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's print collection, with b&w illustrations and red decorations. Dust jacket price-clipped, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Roz Chast. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MARTIN. Hardcover with dust jakcet. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Illustrated in full color by Jaap Tol. Cover shows light wear on front cover with nickel size scuff mark on front cover and some marking in blue pen on Seagull wings of rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust thus, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial paper label to front cover, gilt stamping to spine. Six color plates, title page design and 2-color endpapers art by Peter Hurd. 279 pages. Some fading tospine gilt, light shelf wear, clean copy.

New York, Seabury, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages. Black & white illustrations by Joseph Duffy. Dust jacket has light wear to corners.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 3rd Printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. INSCRIBED BY BILL LITTLEFIELD ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Bernie Fuchs. First edition, 3rd printing. Vermont Council on the Humanities stamp at bottom edge of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 40 pages of riddles and jokes about sports illustrated with b&w cartoons by Stan Mack.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 30 pages. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket chipping lightly at corners and spine edge. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a pristine dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN SELZNICK ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Menotti's own narrative version of his opera of the same name. The full color and b/w drawings are based on the set designs for the Metropolitan Opera's production. Photo of both author and illustrator appear on rear of jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Ashley Bryan. Musical arrangements by David Manning Thomas. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. BOOKPLATE ON FRONT ENDPAPER SIGNED BY AUTHOR JACK PRELUTSKY AND ILLUSTRATOR PETER SIS. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. Once again the collaborators of The Dragons Are Singing Tonight have combined their extraordinary talents to concoct an irresistible collection of trolls, wizards, witches, giants, ogres (and a solitary yeti). "Jack Prelutsky is up to his usual hilarious no good in this new collection of witchy, wizardly, ogreish poems....Among the subjects of these briskly amusing poems is a wizard who rashly makes himself disappear, a seven-century-old apprentice witch....and a family-type ogre....Prelutsky's skill with catchy rhymes and delightfully fiendish subject matter is complemented by Peter Sis's humorously foreboding and cheerfully nonchalant illustrations."

Hardcover. NY, Veritas Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a edgeworn dust jacket. Yellow endpapers with scattered buttons, in jacket identical to boards. Illustrated in color and b&w by Cay Ferry. The story of Mr. Pink, button manufacturer, who looks at modern conveniences with disdain, and that includes zippers! When the Copley's ask permission to build a house, then a garden, then a tennis court on the large factory roof, he begins to change. Nice Christmas pictures at the end of the book, with Mr. Pink arriving on the snowy roof for the celebration. Dust jacket with light chipping to spine, price-clipped. Clean copy.

New York, Random House, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 72 pages. Two-color illustrations by Catherine Barnes. Dust jacket has edgewear, missing small chunk on rear spine edge.Tom Jordan's idea for having a flea circus goes kaput when Bimbo, the family's flea-ridden dog, runs away.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 108 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Barry Moser. Dust jacket with spine fade, light edgewear. Clean, tight copy. Stories of the trickster hero Jahdu retold by Virgina Hamilton.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Sis. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 54 pages. "A Book of Old Rhymes With New Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters." 11 full page color plates. All pages color illustrated and decorated by Crane. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Decorated endpapers. Pages are lightly age toned and there is some minor smudging and discoloration to endpapers. Reddish brown pictorial cloth with b/w illustration. Matching brown, black, and white pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear and some age soil.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Full color and black & white illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse. Faint foxing along hinges on preliminary pages. Rubbing along cover edges and spine, upper right corners with shallow bump. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Paris, Jardin des Modes, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow pictorial boards, 14.25'' x 10.25'', black cloth spine. 48 pages. Color illustrations. Pictorial endpapers. First French edition of the third installment of the adventures of Babar, the orphaned elephant. An unusually bright, clean copy of a book often found in rough shape. Some mild soil to yellow boards. Beautful collector's copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harper Collins, Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Ardizzone. Ginger is fed up with life on dry land. One morning, Charlotte and Tim wake to find a note saying he's run away to the high seas. They set off to find him, but with no money, the only way they can do it is to sign on with a ship's crew. A terrible fog surrounds their ship with disastrous results -- but the adventure is just beginning! Ardizzone's witty prose and illustrations form a lively portrait of the comical, but always exciting, escapades.Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Company, Reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Keith Ward and Eleanor Campbell. "Public School 201, 155 St. & 65 Avenue, Flushing, N. Y." stamped at top right left corner of title page. Light rubbing, surface soiling to covers. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "This collection of illustrations from the National Art Library at the V&A contains well-known and unfamiliar fables accompanied by contemporary texts and translations, often with a topical or satirical content. It gives a cross-section of illustrative styles from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Fabulous color and b/w illustrations throughout. A wonderful reference volume, with a small bibliography and an "Analysis by Theme" at rear (plus Index)." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Daniel San Souci. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in a fine hand along top edge of inside front cover dated 1939. Full color and black & white illustrations by Barbara Latham. Rubbing to edges and corners of covers. Degree of age toning to page edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st US, 2024, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages. In Jim Curious and the Jungle Journey, a young boy goes on an adventure in an old-fashioned diving suit. After waking up in bed (or is he really awake?), Jim walks through a mirror and into a shallow swamp that leads to a mysterious island. There, in the jungle, he encounters snakes, monkeys, and a giant turtle, as well as some creepy-crawly creatures, before discovering an ancient abandoned temple deep in the heart of the jungle. There are two pairs of 3-D glasses at the back of the book to add to your reading pleasure. Clean copy.

New York, Simon & Schuster , Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-colors by Hilary Knight. SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, England, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, N. D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated, in French, color illustrations by author, clean, tight copy, cover slightly warped, slight foxing. Not dated but from around 1945.

Hardcover. NY, Beginner Books/ Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards. This is the first "Babar" title (B-45) to be part of the Random House "Beginner Book" Series. Color illustrations by author. Lacks dust jacket. Clean copy.

Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket A new edition of the 1969 classic, this one with new color art by Alexander. When his mother gets angry over the mess he has made and he decides to run away with his friend, Blackboard Bear, Anthony discovers that the woods can be a very scary place,

Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st U.S., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by P. J. Lynch, DVD "Making Fairy Tales" inside front cover, very clean, tight copy, like new. Brought to new life with enchanting illustrations by award-winning artist P. J. Lynch, this comic American folktale concludes with a final, satisfying twist that says much about fate, identity, and the captivating power of bees.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth/library binding, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Ex-lib with endpaper stamp and residue. Interior is clean. Tales told in the MIddle East travel from storyteller to storyteller, from country to country. Sometimes they cross the ocean, as this story in one form did to be told in Detroit by an Armenian grandmother. An American scholar heard this story told of the Bedouins, while still another version is Turkish.

Hardcover. NY, Hypeion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear on covers. Color illustrations by Feiffer. SIGNED BY FEIFFER on half title page.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, 69 pages. Gray boards bumped at bottom edge. Very good pictorial dust jacket. B&w engraved plates by Barry Moser.

Hardcover. Insight Editions, 1st, 2018, Hardcover in pictorial boards. This unique package created by pop-up book master Matthew Reinhart folds open to a 33" x 37" 3-D recreation of Hogwarts designed to delight Harry Potter fans. It features five large spreads and 30 individual pop-ups. An exhilarating, interactive guide to the iconic school of witchcraft and wizardry This book features spectacular pop-up re-creations of key locations inside and outside Hogwarts castle, and it opens flat to form a pop-up map of the castle and its grounds-including the Quidditch pitch, the Forbidden Forest, and beyond In addition to large pops on each spread, numerous mini-pops will bring to life beloved elements from the Harry Potter films, such as the Marauder's Map and the Flying Ford Anglia. Each pop-up includes insightful text about Hogwarts as seen in the films. Clean, still in publisher's shipping box.

New York , Hastings House, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Adapted from an old French Legend and illustrated in color, B&W by Cooney. SIGNED AND DATED (1987) BY COONEY on title-page. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ROSEMARY WELLS ON TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An illustrated version of the famous Christmas song. Small volume, 5.25 x 4.5". Like new.